"We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious."

-- Sophie Swetchine

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“When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.”

Source : "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.
“Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.”

Source : "Susana Martinez RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
“The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.”
“But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.”
“Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule.”
“I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.”
“There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.”

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